Re: [orca-list] Strange behavior with trunk Orca and Firefox 3.0.6

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Rich:

Sorry I wasn't clear.  :-(  For all of the below, I mean building 
directly from sources pulled from svn.

Will

Rich Caloggero wrote:
> Will said:
> -> As of GNOME 2.24.x, it may be safe to just upgrade to Orca from trunk on
> your GNOME 2.24.x system (I do it regularly).
> ...
>
> By this do you mean via apt-get or similar package manager, as in:
>  sudo apt-get install gnome-orca
>
> which will get binaries from Ubuntu, or from ppa.launchpad.net/accessibility 
> (if you have these urls in your sources.list or equivalent repository list)?
>
> -> However, it's not recommended.  Instead, you may want to grab Orca 
> sources from the
> gnome-2-24 branch, which is being developed against GNOME 2.24.x.
> ...
>
> and here I assume your talking about grabbing sources from svn? What would 
> be the URL / syntax to grab sources from a specific branch (say 2.24)?
>
> Sorry for the dumb questions.
> -- Rich
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
> To: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>
> Cc: <orca-list gnome org>; "Nolan Darilek" <nolan thewordnerd info>
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 7:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Strange behavior with trunk Orca and Firefox 3.0.6
>
>
> Hi All:
>
> > I think the problem is that you updated atk, gail, and atspi. I've done
> > this many times, and it inevitably leads to an unstable Orca - odd
> > behaviors that others can't duplicate.
>
> The packages of a GNOME release are meant to work with each other, and
> mixing/matching packages from other GNOME releases really isn't
> supported.  So, your mileage will vary.  As we see in Rich's case, it
> can vary a lot.  :-(
>
> As of GNOME 2.24.x, it may be safe to just upgrade to Orca from trunk on
> your GNOME 2.24.x system (I do it regularly).  However, it's not
> recommended.  Instead, you may want to grab Orca sources from the
> gnome-2-24 branch, which is being developed against GNOME 2.24.x.
>
> Will